English Immersion Course

English immersion courses are very efficient to improve your English because with an English immersion course you are completely surrounded by or immersed in the English language. English is not only the language that you are learning, it is also the language you use to learn. You use the English language to learn the English language.

Advantages

English immersion courses bring several advantages. Everything you need to do or solve during the course, you do in English. Instead of using the mother tongue to solve practical matters like having a break, needing an eraser, scheduling, asking permission, you do this in English. This turns the course into hands-on training, you learn how to do something by doing it in English. It is more time efficient because you do not first solve a problem using the mother tongue and later learn how to solve a problem like that in English, you solve the problem and learn how to do that in English, at the same time.

What is needed to become fluent and proficient in a language is practise. Theory can help but what is necessary is practise. Learning a language is more like learning to ride a bike or to play tennis than like learning physics. During a language immersion course, you practice working with the language, all the time.

Handouts

Our handouts and glossaries are provided in print during the course and afterwards as e-documents which you can use on handhelds like Palm and Blackberry.

Customised

To make the English immersion courses more efficient even, we customise them to your needs. Some of the possibilities are listed below.

Possibilities

Place

• In-company
• At remote locations like country hotels or hostels

Time

• From two days to two weeks, 24 hours per day (most efficient)
• Whole work days
• Weekly classes during which only English is used

Specific and Academic Purposes

English for areas like:

• business administration,
• gastronomy,
• human sciences,
• health care,
• biology,
• engineering,
• information technology (IT),
• psychology,
• human resources,
• environmental matters.

Some situations that can be practised

• Visiting congresses
• Presentations, delivering and preparing
• Receiving guests at the company
• Professional reading and writing such as emails, letters, notes, reports, articles
• Interpretation of scientific and technical literature
• Discussing
• Meetings, business and other work related
• Social conversation